re: Was Kirby the catalyst for Saban to win at bama?

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If you youngsters can go back a few years, parcels had an assistant coach that was pretty good they won the super bowl together. Everyone thought Parcells was the greatest coach, but the assistant got a head coaching job and look what each one has done. That coach is now the coach of the Pats. Seems like that Smart and Saban are kinda in the same situation.

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First, thanks for calling me a youngster, grandpa. I don't get that much at my age.

Second, Parcells was a pretty damn good coach in his own right. Are you saying he only won because of Belichick? Do you not think Belichick learned a thing or two from Parcells about running an organization? Funny, since Belichick himself names Parcells as his #1 mentor. When Parcells was defensive coordinator of the Giants, he took Belichick (a special teams assistant) under his wing and taught him to coach linebackers because of a relationship he had with Belichick's father. When Parcells was named head coach, he allowed Belichick to coach the defense but did not give him the DC title to protect him from media scrutiny. There are not many better stories than this in NFL history of a coach mentoring another young coach. Did the student become better than his teacher? Perhaps or perhaps he got lucky and had the GOAT QB for much of his career. Either way, to insinuate that Belichick made Parcells is as foolish as saying Kirby somehow made Saban, so I guess it is a valid example. Just because a student becomes great, it doesn't mean he made the teacher. Usually, it was the teacher who taught him to be great.